On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:41:55 -0500, the infamous "Martin H. Eastburn"
scrawled the following:

Right.
If you replace the $7 bearings with the cheap import ones - then what -
do it every year ?

Have you had trouble with premature failure of import bearings,
Martin?

I wouldn't use one on my spaceship's gyro, but wouldn't hesitate to
use them elsewhere.

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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and
impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
-- Joseph Addison, 'Cato'